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Wliite-crawned Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii, p, 200. N" 44.— j^r^?. Zoel. ii. N" 221. 44, 



WHITE- 

 »pHIS bird is called at Hudfon's Bay by the name oi Cujabata- CROWNED B. 



Jhijh. It has a melodious fong when perched, but in flight 

 i-t is filent *. 



Black-crowned Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 202. N"^ 49.— v^r<?. Zook ii. pr'^iPpir 



^'° 230- CROWNED B, 



N Cc(j^'s laft voyage -f, I find an obfervation concerning this 

 bird, viz. that the male was black on the upper part of the 

 breafl: : that the. female had alfo black on the breaft, but no fpot 

 of yellow on the crown. 



Cinereous Banting, Var. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 204. N°5. — ArB. Zaol. N°233. ,,^ 



Var.'a.- 



'T' H E bill in this bird is yellow : head, back, and wings, ruft- CINEREOUS B. 

 coloured, each feather deeply and elegantly edged with pale Description. 

 grey : fome of the greater coverts edged with paler rufl-j prima- 

 ries and tertials with white : throat, breaft, and fides, white, fully 

 fpotted with ruft r middle of the belly white: middle feathers of 

 the tail brown ; exterior white, each feather truncated obliquely. 



Inhabits iWif Jlsr/^. •• Plagk, 



Painted Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 206. N? 54. — Ara. Zool. ii. N*226. 54. 



■«- PAINTED B. 



T HAVE hitherto doubted that this bird had bred in England; 

 but Mr. fra;zy?«// afTures me to the contrary. Two pairs have 



» Mi.Hutchins, t Vol. ii, p. 379, 



made 



